State and Regional Folk Tales

Creator: S.E. Schlosser | visit site

Grade Range: 4 - 6

This repository of folk tales from throughout the United States, organized by state and region, provides students with a great literary tapestry of American culture. Add to a unit on your state’s history, or use to supplement your reading curriculum.

In the Classroom

Introduce this site on the interactive whiteboard or projector, before allowing students to explore the site independently. Use the stories as a writing prompt - after students have explored for a set amount of time, have them write their own ghost stories about areas in the state. To tie it into history, teachers can make them time-pieces, with the stories required to be related to a certain unit or period of time.

At Home

Tags

folk tales, states,

Subjects

American History, History & Culture: World, Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies, Social Studies,